Judaism

Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith.

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.

Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme.

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk.

This collection of articles constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies, offering different perspectives on the rich and complex phenomena in the social, political, and cultural development of Jewish communities in the area.

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.

How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation?

Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth.

This book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society.

In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories.

American Jewish identity has changed significantly over the course of the past half century.

Two basic approaches have shaped the identity discourse since antiquity.

Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and civilizations.

If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work.

Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century.

Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia.

Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "e;Judenrein"e; (free of Jews).

Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office.

Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s.

Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People, addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and defamation of religions other than Judaism.

In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D.

Neil Gillman has been a part of the JTS community for over 50 years as a student, administrator and member of the faculty.

Mystical Vertigo immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as a gateway into the poet's quest for mystical union known as devekut.

Are there theoretical grounds for tolerance in the classical Jewish tradition?

In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel?

This collection includes two symposia, on "e;The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America"e; and on "e;Maimonides on the Eternity of the World,"e; as well as other studies in medieval Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought.

The Boldness of a Halakhist analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (1829-1908), author of the Arukh Hashulkhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law.

Both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud depict a wide range of sorrowful situations tied to every level of society and to the complexities of human behavior and the human condition.

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation.

Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colorful rabbinic authority in Algiers.

In the Jewish tradition, it is incumbent upon every generation to attempt to find meaning in its history.

Challenging the notion that Jewish mysticism ceased to exist in the Hassidic enclaves of early nineteenth century Europe, Hamutal Bar-Yosef delves into the mystical elements of twentieth-century Israeli literature.

For centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality.

Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects.

This classic work by early-20th-century Jewish humanist and scholar Isaac Heinemann surveys the crucial phases of Jewish thought concerning correct conduct as codified in the commandments.

The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides.

The Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon.

Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics.

Science in the Bet Midrash explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), one of the most influential Jews of the last thousand years.

Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the Scroll of Secrets is the hidden Messianic vision of R.

This carefully crafted collection of essays, Jewish Thought in Dialogue, offers creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and as well as original treatments of significant issues in Jewish theology and ethics.

Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age tackles the following questions: 1.

Democratizing Judaism is a two-part examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M.

Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of his community, and a guardian of Jewish rights.

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R.

"e;Think of the disaster"e; is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah.

Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of religious consciousness and of Judaism.

The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate.